[extropy-chat] Survey - Ireland best country to live in -- tech facilitated social evolution

[Extropian Agroforestry Ventures Inc.]

What a difference 3 decades make.
When I was in high school in 1971 we had a current affairs class and 
studied the Quebec Canada FLQ separatist movement
and the Irish IRA.  Ireland seemed like a pretty terrible place to live 
then.
So maybe there is hope for Iraq.....?
What is sad is that such massive groups of  humans are such slow learners.
Resources and time  are wasted in this very inefficient learning process.
Technological hardware/software direct neural links may enhance the 
learning process by allowing access to
a globally  distributed conscious experience.

Distributed knowledge caches and  associative links  will fundamentally 
change the nature of education.
Simple rote can be replaced by cognitive experience package up and 
downloads.
Not simple information but knowledge but experience. 
Individual neural link enabled enhancment to facilitate holding numerous 
individual customized cognitive experience packages "files" open 
similtaneously "multitasking" will substantially increase "social IQ". 
as well as overall "working IQ".

The differentiations between personal VS group cognitive 
experience....generic/ public domain VS private commercial
cognitive experience will define average distributed group baseline IQ   
VS  personal IQ.

Like Ireland, conflicting cognitive experiences will be thrust  together.
Hopefully, it does not take the equivalent of 70 years of social 
violence to make a coexistance of social cognitive environments
a reality.







BillK wrote:

><http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4020523.stm>
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>Ireland is the best place to live in the world, according to a
>"quality of life" assessment by Economist magazine. The country's
>combination of increasing wealth and traditional values gives it the
>conditions most likely to make its people happy, the survey found.
>The Economist said: "Ireland wins because it successfully combines the
>most desirable elements of the new, such as low unemployment and
>political liberties, with the preservation of certain cosy elements of
>the old, such as stable family and community life."
>
>The USA languished in 13th, while Britain was 29th - the lowest of the
>pre-expansion EU nations. The researchers said although the UK
>achieved high income per head, it had high levels of social and family
>breakdown.
>
> 1 Ireland
>2 Switzerland
>3 Norway
>4 Luxembourg
>5 Sweden
>6 Australia
>7 Iceland
>8 Italy
>9 Denmark
>10 Spain
>
>
>BillK
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